Rail-anchor



.B. WOLHAUPTER.

RAIL ANCHOR. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 15. 1916.-

1,3s2,335. Patented June 21,1921.

551mm A a/ 7 WOL/M E UNITED PATENT OFFIE..

RAIL-ANCHOR.

Application filed August 15, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, BENJAMIN WOL- IIAUPTER, citizen of the United States, residing at New Rochelle, in the county of ll estchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Tmprovements in Rail-Anchors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices employed to prevent longitudinal creeping of railway rails, and has for its ob ject a simple and practical device of this character, which more satisfactorily responds to service requirements than many similar devices now in use.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a rail anchor or anticreeping device which will remain operative and effective at all times regardless of the expansion and contraction of the rails due to temperatur changes. Also to provide an anchoring means for the rail which entirely dispenses with the use of moving parts such as springs, levers, or wedges, as frequently employed in the construction of rail anchors or anticreepers for rails, and which are liable to displacement or derangement which entirely destroys the effectiveness and practicability of the device. In this aspect, the present invention contemplates an improvement in rail anchors whereby the same may be permanently placed in fiXed relation to the rail and thus always remain in operative position, while at the same time admitting of the use of a variety of rail anchoring members which could be inexpensively and readily manufactured by the ordinary casting or rolling mill processes.

l/Vith these and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

The invention is necessarily susceptible of a Wide range of structural modification without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, but certain preferred and practical embodiments are suggested in the drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a railway rail fitted with a permanent Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 21, 1921.

semi nojiiaoso.

rail anchoring member in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 showing the permanently attached anchorin element in elevation.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating another application of the invention, wherein a stronger and more effective bond may be made between the anchoring element and the rail.

4C is a bi-sected sectional. view illustrating one form of rail anchoring element that may be utilized, the view illustrating a device before being welded.

5 is a view similar to Fig. 4c illustrating a form of weld that may be employed in connection with the type of anchoring element shown in Fig. 4:.

Like references designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying forward the invention any suitable form of anchoring element may be employed which can be permanently fastened to the rail and will cooperate with the tie as an abutment; but it is preferred that the anchoring element be of a type that can be manufactured by the ordinary rolling mill processes. Accordingly, for purposes of illustration, there is shown in the several figures of the drawings, a rail anchoring element designated by the reference letter A and of the type generally known as a rail clip. This rail clip is usually constructed of a single piece of hardened steel bent to provide the upper and lower gripping jaws 1 and 2, respectively. These jaws are divergently rolled to form therebetween a tapering flange receiving socket 3, which accommodates the tapering flange of the rail, and it will be observed that the socket of each clip is of a sufficient depth to provide the necessary clearance and adjustment for the clip to initially adapt itself to the rail flange when placed thereon. Thus, the clip form of anchoring element A provides a device which snugly fits the rail flange and firmly engages the upper and lower sides of the flange, so as to have an extended hearing and engagement therewith and become a solid and substantial part of the rail when permanently fastened thereto.

The permanent fastening of the rail anchoring element A to the rail may be accomplished in various ways. The invention, however, preferably contemplates effecting this permanent fastening by any of the well known welding operations, either electrical or mechanical, or by means of welding compositions, for instance, as suggested in Figs. 1 and 2' of the drawings, a welding hole 4 may be drilled or punched in the anchoring element at one or more places and said hole or holes utilized to receive a welding composition 5, such as thermet or equivalent compositions which act as a flux and bond when heat and pressure are applied to the surrounding parts. This, however, is sim ply one of many expedients which may be utilized, but since the welding operation is the preferable one, another way of effecting this weld is suggested in Figs. 3, 4t and 5 of the drawings.

Referring to said Figs. 3, a and 5 of the drawings, it will be observed that a form of rail clip which may be advantageously utilized is a rail clip the type shown in Fig. 2, but provided on the inner side of both its upper andlower jaws with a series of gripping projections or teeth 6, which have a biting engagement with the rail flange when the clip is put into place. At the same timethe points of said teeth or projections, by reason of their limited area 0:": contact, and small amount of metal therein, will provide fusing points which readily melt under the welding torch and serve to quickly and effectively consolidate the weld. This form of toothed clip is shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings prior to the. weld, and in Figs.

3 and 5 the welded union or joint at the ends of the clip is designated by the numeral 7. A weld of this character may be effected by the oxyacetylene torch applied along the ends of the clip with or without steel solcer which is now commonly employed in welding'together metal parts. Also it will be observed that the form of construction suggested in Fig. i lends itself very readily to an electric welding operation on account of the limited area of contact for the points of the teeth 6.

It will have been observed that an anchoring element permanently fixed to the rail, in the manner suggested, is adapted to engage against the tie T or tie plate as an abutment, these being the only elements necessary to provide a thoroughly satisfactory and complete rail anchor or anticreeping device to check longitudinal movement of the rail.

From the foregoing it is thought that the distinctive and essential features of the invention will now be readily understood without further description, and it will also be understood that the mode of application of the anchoring element and the particular manner of permanently attaching it to the rail are susceptible of a wide range of modification without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

I claim: r

l. A rail anchor comprising in combination with the rail, an anchor element fillet welded thereto. 7

2. A rail anchor comprising in combination with the rail, an anchor element fillet welded to the rail flange.

3. A rail anchor comprising in combination with the rail, an anchor element fillet welded to the upper side of the rail flange.

4. A rail anchor comprising in combination with the rail and a tie, a rail clip adapted to embrace the rail flange and fillet welded thereto.

5. A rail anchor comprising in combination with the rail and a tie, a rail clip adapted to embrace the rail flange and provided with toothed members welded thereto.

6. A rail anchor comprising in combination with the rail and a tie, a rail clip having upper and lower toothed jaws rigidly united with the rail flange.

7. A rail anchor comprising in combination with the rail and a tie, a rail clip adapted to embrace the rail flange and provided with gripping teeth directly engaging the surfaces of the latter, and a weld forming a permanent bond between the end portions of the clip and the rail.

8. An anti-creeper for railway rails comprising a jaw member embracing and fillet clded to one of the base flanges of the rail.

9. An anti-creeper for railway rails comprising in combination with the rail and a cross tie, of a jaw member embracing and fillet welded to one of the base flanges of the rail and arranged to cooperate with said cross tie.

10. An anti-creeper for railway rails comprising in combination with the rail and an abutment, a jaw member embracing one of the base flanges of the rail and a fillet weld uniting the jaw member to said flange.

11. The combination with a rail and its supporting cross tie, of an anchor arranged to abut against the side of the tie and having a flange overlapping and fillet welded at its edges to the upper face of the base flange of the rail.

12. The combination with a rail and its supporting cross tie, of an anchor arranged to abut against the cross tie and having a jaw engaging'the base flange of the rail base, and a body of metal welded to the rail base for locking said anchor in position thereon.

13. The combination with a rail and its supporting cross tie, of an anchor arranged to abut against the cross tie and having a jaw engaging the base flange of the rail, the

upper member of said jaw being fillet weld- Ed at its edges to the upper face of the rail ase.

14. The combination with a rail and a supporting cross tie, of an anchor comprising a plate of metal fillet welded to an ex posed face 01 one of the flanges oil the rail and having a part beyond the edge of the flange for engagement with the tie.

15. A rail anchor comprising two connected elements, one element being fillet Welded to the top of the rail flange and the other element extending beneath the rail.

16. In a rail anchor, the combination with a single abutment, of an element fillet welded to the rail flange and extending beyond the same, said extension engaging said abutment.

17. A one piece rail anchor fillet welded to the top of a rail flange.

18. A one piece rail anchor fillet welded to the top of the rail flange and comprising a metal bar bent between its ends to form respectively tie abutting and rail engaging portions.

19. A one piece rail anchor comprising a metal plate fillet welded to a rail flange and adapted to engage a tie.

201 A one piece rail anchor fillet welded to a rail flange and bent to form an upper rail engaging portion and a lower depending portion, a part of the depending p0rtion being adapted to form a tie engaging abutment.

21. A one piece rail anchor fillet welded to a rail flange and bent to form an upper rail engaging portion and a lower depending portion a part of the depending portion being adapted to form a tie engaging abutment underlying the rail bottom.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN WOLHAUPTER.

Witnesses:

AMY F. CLEAVER, FRANCES E. M. WILSON. 

